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Arsenalna station, in Kiev, is the deepest metro station in the world is 105.5 metres (346 ft) below street level.
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HYPE REMINDER!
More money was spent buying Central Park land than all of Alaska.
The first photo ever uploaded to the internet was of a comedy band.
There's a Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia. You can go and leave there personal objects left by former lovers, accompanied by brief descriptions.
Every advertisement for iPhones has 9:41 set as the time. This is because, in 2007, Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone at that time. The 41-minute presentation leading up to the reveal of the first iPhone was planned perfectly. And the first photo of the iPhone showed the time 9:41, at exactly 9:41 am.
In 2011, Hugh Hefner saved the iconic 'HOLLYWOOD' sign by donating the final $900,000 needed to buy the land before being bought by mansion developers.
If you’ve ever said, “I’ll be back in a jiffy,” you were actually saying, “I’ll be back in 10 milliseconds.” A jiffy is an actual measurement of time, referring to the length of one cycle of the computer’s system clock – about 10 milliseconds.
When Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver, he walked home, saw two doctors, but there was no surgeon to remove the bullet. The doctors left him alone smoking his pipe in his room. He died two days later.
PAGELY HYPE !!!
An average 21-year-old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games.
99% of the microbes inside us are unknown to science. (unverified)
Most of today’s successful companies started in garages.
RESOURCE GIVEAWAY!!
In 2012, Google acquired Motorola for around $12.5 billion, only to sell it to Lenovo two years later for just $2.9 billion.
Hyrdoxy hypothalamic hype
Most internet traffic isn’t from real humans.
TV show "The Sopranos" was so accurate that when the FBI listened to wiretaps, the real mob would be discussing the show and thought they had somebody on the inside. They couldn't believe how accurate the show was.
CAPTCHA is a long acronym. It stands for “Completely Automatic Public Turning Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.”
The top three most used passwords are 123456, password, and 12345.
Billionaire Howard Hughes bought the small Silver Slipper casino for the sole purpose of moving its trademark neon silver slipper. Visible from Hughes' bedroom, it had apparently kept him awake at night.
There wasn’t an app store on the first iPhone.
The Simpsons released an album in 1990 and the lead single "Do the Bartman" was a worldwide hit. It was co-produced by Michael Jackson, who also provided background vocals and was a big fan of the show.
A study showed that it's not necessary to run, swim or work out at the gym. Household chores such as vacuuming or scrubbing the floor, or merely walking to work provide enough exercise to protect the heart and extend life.
We only keep 1 out of every 10 apps we try.
If you're an artist or a scientist, you'll be most likely to have your biggest creative breakthrough in your late-30s, according to a study of scientific innovators and Nobel Prize winners.
Digital music sales surpassed physical sales in 2014.
Well they are billionaire for a reason
The @ symbol was chosen kind of randomly.